On ne badine pas avec l'amour

Harpagon, the most famous miser in theater, in Molière's five-act comedy. A Théâtre-Classique edition based on the original 1669 text.

Molière

Argan, a hypochondriac who would do anything for his doctors, stars in Molière's last comedy. Quick dialogue that helps you understand spoken French.

Molière

Racine's tragedy of Phaedra's forbidden love for her stepson Hippolytus, written in alexandrine verse. One of the peaks of French classical theater.

Jean Racine

Sophocles' Greek tragedy in which Electra and Orestes avenge the death of their father Agamemnon. In the French translation by Leconte de Lisle.

Sophocles

Chekhov's The Seagull, a four-act play about artists, unrequited love and broken dreams. A complete French translation.

Anton Chekhov